Lindsey Buckingham's "animalistic spirit" !

[WindingRoad]

The Philadelphia Inquirer has a review of Monday's concert in today's paper. It's mostly a good review. Some things I agree with and some I don't.

What struck me was the opening paragraph which says:

"MAC BRINGS IT ALL BACK

FLEETWOOD MAC PLAYED THE HITS AND GAVE THEM A NEW LIFE.

Toward the end of "Go Your Own Way," one of a generous number of vintage hits Fleetwood Mac performed Monday at the near-capacity First Union Center, Lindsey Buckingham appeared to be overtaken by an animalistic spirit. "

Ooooh, that so describes his performance. I haven't posted a review of the show because frankly I don't have the words to describe it. It was that phenomonal! I thought I'd just let other people review and I would respond to them. I really wanted to describe Lindsey, which surprises me since I'm a Stevie fan first. And I don't know how to discribe guitar parts and this guy said it pretty well........

"He was playing a guitar solo - a carefully constructed thematic excursion defined by harpooning, pitch-bending long tones - when Buckingham suddenly began to flail at the strings. He lifted both hands high in the air and repeatedly smacked the fretboard. His body appeared tense, and there was rage in his movements. It was as though a gorilla had snuck inside his body, still rail-thin at 54, and was going his own way, lashing out, manipulating his arms, generating a hailstorm of dissonance.

The brief display of fury was disorienting, if not downright puzzling, especially during a harmless little affirmation such as "GO Your Own Way." But it did what so many live performances from heritage artists don't: It pulled a timeworn and overplayed song 26 years into the present and gave it blood and guts."

Am I allowed to quote a newspaper article?
Not sure so here's their website www.philly.com and the article was written by Tom Moon. Hope that covers me!

Anyway, Lindsey was fantastic. There was one song, I think it was "Come", during the slow parts of the song, when he was backlit with bright yellow-orange light and he was singing in that low steaming angry way and I swear he looked positively EVIL! Deliciously evil! I'm a married woman!

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